The looters had evidently removed the products from their boxes to create more space in their shopping trolleys and cars, which were said to number up to 100.

Fragments of glass from the smashed in door of PC World littered the ground.

The scene outside Comet was similar and outside B&Q - one of the few stores that did not appear to have been looted - staff stood uncertainly, waiting to hear from head office whether they would be working today.

If employed white men had been rioting B&Q's power tool section would have been the first to go.

Among the images that stick in the mind from Katrina was Black people wading through the floods of New Orleans carrying their booty of plasma tellies and crates of bourbon while White people were making their way through the water carrying cartons filled with canned food and bottled water.

So it goes.

WV splacqua. Now there's a winning brand name there just waiting for someone to pick up and run with.

Alas, Foxy, it is more likely that Scarman and Macpherson will be taken dowwn from the shelf and studied closely for pointers to areas of institutionalized racism (and such other isms as might seem relevant) where further regulation and/or spending would be indicated.

The recent riots have seen MONA return with a vengeance.Also making an unwelcome comeback (on C4 news) was race hustler extraordinaire Lee Jasper, fielding a succession of soft ball questions from Guru-Murthy.

The facade the Met usually retains has been blown away in the past few nights; they now clearly resemble a routed army much more than an in-control police force. No wonder Theresa May looked so worried during her announcement today.